Climate Tasmania

Will Australia’s much-heralded carbon pricing scheme turn out to be an excuse to turn our backs on much-needed complementary measures? [17 April 2012 | Peter Boyer]
Five months ago many Australians, including me, gave qualified applause to the passage of the Gillard government’s carbon pricing legislation, due to enter into force on July 1.
We applauded as [...]

It’s fine for a banker to endow us with his wisdom on financial matters. It’s not fine when he uses his platform to contradict the prevailing science of climate change. [13 December 2011 | Peter Boyer]
A couple of weeks ago David Murray, chairman of Australia’s Future Fund and long-serving former CEO of the Commonwealth Bank, [...]

By Soliman Aït Maamar | 18 November 2011
Powershift is organised annually by the Australian Youth Climate Coalition, an organisation bringing together young people seeking to make a real impact on Australia’s (and the world’s) effort to abate our greenhouse emissions and help their communities to work with, not against, nature. This year’s event in Brisbane [...]